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      To The Members Of The Chautist Co-Operative Lasp Association.

      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CHAUTIST CO-OPERATIVE LASP ASSOCIATION .

      Mr Fsiksds ,—I Have Told You In The Outs...

      Mr Fsiksds , —I have told you in the outset , , that the success of our p lan , mainly depends upon official integrit y and pop ular confidence ; and that it is liable to much damage by the unnecessary publication of our views , our intentions , and prospects ; the more especially upon the subject which seems most to interest parties who have nothing whatever to do with our association-I mean the purchase of estates . 1 haw lost one estate already by allowing myself to be dragged into the foolish announcement of my intention to purchase . However , I am always

      prepared to make great allowances for working men who have been so often deceived , and who can scarcely be brought to believe in the just expenditure of their funds ; and , therefore , lest my last letter should have led to anticipations which my present may not realise , having fallen into the error of making the announcement , I shall now put you in possession of the secret . I proceeded to Worcester onEridiyywhere Ibid £ 10 , 000 for 173 acres of the primest land in England' I requested two friends"both shareholders , and , I believe , secretaries at Kidderminster — to meet me , -and bid according to my directions . I bid £ 10 , 000 for the

      place as it is , upon condition that I should have immediate possession , together with stock , crop , fixtures , timber , tenant rig hts , and all those appendages which are so highly valued . 1 ras the highest bidder , but there was a reserved bid , which I did not think myself justified in offering , and I remained at Worcester till half-past nine o ' clock at night in treaty with the parties concerned , with the understanding that , after a family consultation , I was to receive a definitive answer—that answer , however , I hare not received , but I fully anticipate a favourable one . I am also in treaty for another estate of 126 acres , and I am going this *

      ( Wednesday ) evening at five o clock , to Devonshire , to purchase an " estate of 121 acres to-morrow , -within 8 miles of Exeter . "Whatever estate I purcbase I wuttake care to get immediate possession of , and I still hold to my word , that those who have balloted forit will be located in the spring , as no time shall be lost iu proceeding with the work . Kow , I have thought it necessary to be thus minute upon the present occasion , but never again expect to hear one word about the purchase of an estate until yon are told that it is yours , and never again give ear to the jealous boobies who know no more about land than they do about navigation , for I now tell you , after some experience , that no possible obstacle can stand in the way of the full and comp lete realization of the expectations held out in our rules .

      I know that when men affect a great interest about anything , that it is naturally set down to the account of selfishness and self-interest ; but , believe me , when I tell you , that the only benefit that I derive from the plan , is excessive toil , heavy expence , inconceivaole responsibility , an abundant share of abuse , and the total neglect of my own concerns for a greater care of yours . Now , that ' s my full share of the Land Plan . Wednesday evening and all Thursday are the two important days for arc presence In London , to perform the vanea duties consequent upon Editorship ; and , for no common purpose of my own would I surrender those two

      days in any week for ^ 20 , and yet I cheerfully give them up to your service . It hag usually been my practice to leave London on Thursday night , after two hard days' labour , in search of Land for labour to rest upon ; hut my own convenience has never been an object when your interest was at stake . My time being very much limited this week , and as some sharp-sighted gentlemen have discovered Irish relief in the draining of bogs and mountains , I do not think that I can better devote the space usually

      assigned to my letter than to the re-publishing a portion of my fifth letter to the Irish landlords upon the subject of reclaiming waste lands , and from this nostrum you will learn that it presents no field for the exercise or remuneration of free labour ; but is merely the field for the exercise of speculating cayttaL And always hear in mind , that my abject is to pat the labourer in possession of every particle of the produce of his own industry . I remain , Your faithful friend and bailiff ,

      Feakgus O'Cosxob . The following is a portion of Mr . O'Connor ' s fifth letter to the Irish Landlords , written in July ,

      1841 : — My Lords and Gentlemen , — I now return to my client ' s case ; and having- so far disposed of some » f the abuses of both parties , I shall proceed to comment upon a fallacy or two of good hearted theorists , who would correct the whol » of the evils of both systems by reclaiming our waste lands and just observe , how plainly I deal with this subject , auS also mark new difficult it is to deal trfth perverse and obstinate men , who , while they profess to agree upon au object , render its attainmentimpracti « ahh £ by the whimsicality of their means forits accomplishment . I entirely agree asto the propriety , the

      prudence , and the necessity of bringing all wastelands into cultivation , every inch of them , it is the lean beast , and man's labour alone can make it fat . But then , waste land is not the field whsreln the labourer csn ac , quire the fall amount of his labour ; it is not the market for establishing a just standard . Labour expended upon waste land as to labour expended upon improved land , is just what the labour of a hand-loom weaver is as compared with artificial labour . In the one case the man is hired according to the market price set upon his labour by the capitalist ; and in the other be works for himself ; 2 nd his industry establishes the standard of Ms and of other latourefe value ,

      Capitalists alone can reclaim lend by hind labour , and that labour will be hired at as low a price as possible , if its value is not somehow established in a free and open market . The poor man . with only his health , his strength , and his industry , could not reclaim a cold swamp that required expensive draining ; a mountainous heath that required feiicing an i heavy Manuring ; or scrub and stiff soil that required much labour and manure in the commencement . That is the field wherain the capitalist c * n insure a good interact for money laid oat in reclaiming ; hat it is not one in which the poor man could find any market for his labour without a money capital ; of wlilehm » nej capital andthemeans of judiciously supplying it more hereafter .

      1 unheaitattuglj assert , as T bef- re stated in a letter which" I addm » ed to the anti-Repeal biiulorus of lrc-_ andin 1332 , that rent , ( 1 care not what the amount if t all in reason ) whila labour is free , is but an item , a 1 nd an inconsiderable one , in the lahourtr ' s account I therein sfco ^ ecl that land goes tliroagn several processes before yielding any crop ; and that each and ery one of those processes involves an expence greater n amount than the rent ; and the neglect of the proper performance of any one of them , would make the lowest nt of the best land high , kecaase the loss of all is involved in this single neglect .

      1 have been a very * xtensive farmer , and a very extensive employer . My skill in fanning has bc-en generally acknowledged ; and I have no hesitation in saying that I would rather give £ . = l'J . -. per acre for ten acres of land worth only £ 5 , than give 15 s , per acre for land worth a pound ; provided that the scale ef the respective value of each was justly established by some correct standard . And why ! Because , after payment of rent , I should have three times as much for my . labour upon

      the good ground ; and this again proves the value of labour over raw material . Give a good workman without capital , ten acies of bad land at 10 s . per acre ; he will work away at it , and will do much more than live , an < 5 pay his rent , at first ; lmt h » will certainly , if it is his own at a corn rent , by degrees Improve it , and make it a savings * bank for his labour deposits . However , when j start at a ten shillings rent , 1 start from the very lowest at which man can work , pay his way , and lire without capital .

      My Lords and Gentlemen , I have now shown you and . I think , plainly , that the reclaiming system , while ic would certainly increase our producing powers , and pay the capitalist a good per centape , would not , however , he the proper field for ascertaining the real value of a working fanner ' s labour ; and as that is my object , and in oro . r that a difference as to means should not lead to a split upon the principle , let us see , if , by agreement upon proper details , we may not even yet agree upon this reclaiming system . In the consiclerttion of this subject , I open a great national question well worthy the attention of statesmen who would yet reclaim their country and make her what she ought to be .

      This term " reclaiming , " of course , applies to the practice of bringing barren and heretofore uncultivated soil into cultivation , and the process requires capital . The question is , how the double object can be achieved of opening a free market for labour , ani reclaiming waste land at the eane time ; for I am not for reclaiming any thing that will sot reclaim my clients aiso . Waste lan-J ,

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      if it is to be thus reclaimed , must be made a proper field for the exercise of free labour . My Lords and Gentlemen , it is a sad and melanoholy fact , that the philanthropist cannot discuss the simple question of di gging or ploughing the ground without finding himself hemmed in and hampered on all sides by the mysterious science of politics ; a acience at a perfect knowledge of which no man can » rrive , while the knowledge of to-day maybe ignorance to-morrow ; a science whimsicall y worked Into practice by the most opposing principles—those of Whiggery to-day and of Toryism to morrow ; a science which makes the greatest statesman and boldest tyrant in , omce quail before a tingle night ' s mildew , and break before " the wind that sheds the corn , " while he refines to bend to a simple system which would makeman independent of all casualties save those

      with which God in wisdom thought proper to visit him ; a science which makes man ' s happiness , aay his very life and the peace of the country , ant the very existence of society to depend upon the rule ef farthings . Ah ! my Lords and Gentlemen , the wild hypothesis of the metaphysician , or the complicated and unravellable assertions of the theorist , provided they are wrapped up in class legislation dresses , pass current in the world of letters as wisdom and philosophy ; while the simplest assertion of the philanthropist , if it tend to the elevation « f the poor man , is set down as infidelity and heresy . However , as the rays of knowledge begin to shine through my prison bars , and as they are sure to spread their benign influence abroad over the . whole face of the earth , I am nothing daunted ; and shall therefore , despite the political-economist , < 7 ie- / ari & in < 7-sKdmy-Male patriot , aud the dreadshower statesman , proceed at once to my purpose , which

      is to apply details to your principle of reclaiming waste land . Of that land you have in Great Britain and Ireland more than fifteen millions of acres capable of reclamation . It at all events csn scarcely be called your own , audit therefore out of the Newcastle principle of doing what yon please with it . By its proper appropriation , you not only dq not suffer damage , but , on the con . trary , I propose to do for you what you cannot do for yourselves ; to make it valuable . I estimate that land at a rent of Is . 4 d . per acre . I calculate that each acre in the outset , taking the tenant ' s house and stock and means of subsistence till the land is brought to bear , into account , wonld require somewhere about £ 7 per acre , or a capital of about £ 100 for srery fifteen acres . The fifteen million acres allotted in farms of fifteen acres to one million heads of families , would thus require a capital of one huadred millions of pounds sterling to aid the workimr communities in their work of reclamation .

      The value of those fifteen millions of acres , at twenty years'purchase , at a rent of Is . 4 d . per acre , would cost Government £ 29 , 000 , 000 . Now what I propose ii , that Government shall pur - chase the lands from you , say at that rate , and then , under proper official management , at the head of which should be a Cabinet Minister , to be called the Minister of Agriculture , lease those lands at Is . 4 d . per acre , iu lots of fifteen acres , with a capital of S 5100 advanced to each tenant , subjecting the tenant to a rent of £ l per annum for the land , and the interest of £ 100 at four per cent ., that is £ l for land and £ 4 for int ; rest .

      The sum of £ 120 , 000 , 000 I propose to consolidate into one natioaal fund , which shall stand as a mortgage upon the fifteen millions of acres , and over which the Parliament alone shall have confront ; aud that it should net be a transferable stock , or a stock allowed to be made the medium of exchange , barter , or traffic in the Jew's temple ; but that the Government shall merely be agent for the fund-holder and fund-payer—receiving from the one RRd paying to the other . I propose that , after the first eleven years the , tenant ¦ hall yearly pay ten pounds in liquidation of his debt ; thereby liquidating the whole amount at the end of the next ten years , or with the twenty-first year of his tenancy ; at the close of which ptriod—twen « y . one years—I propose that the tenant shall pay no more than the original chief rent , of Is . 4 d . per acre , and all local taxes ; or a

      pound per annum for his holding for ever and ever , and amen—nutil some future generation , in its wisdom , shall see the State necessity of making the then occupiersthemselves being parties—pay something more as their quota of any national requirement . Now , those who are in love with a national debt as a bond of union , have it her * in the flesh and in the spirit ; thosa who so loudly call out for the cultivation of our waste lands have here th * only chance by which their desire , wbich is improvement and the bettering of the pow man ' s condition , can be simultaneously . effected ; those who " fear that population presses too hardly upon the means of subsistence" have here the means ot obviating that disaster ;

      those of the school of political economy have here the practical illustration of one of their darling principlesthat " when circumstances close up one channel of speculation and industry , other circumstances open another channel ; " those who would gladly find a rating place for the "surplus population , " made such by the suhsti . tution of artificial for natural labour , have here the harbour open for them ; those who would add to our now , as they say , "too scanty surface of wheat producing land , " have here an extension offered to then ; while although I would much prefer the more improved field for the establishment of a free labour standard of value , I have no objection , provided fie gets the means , to allow my client to work out his own salvation in the more barren

      field . Here we have a means of immediately providing for seven millions of people ; and in less than ten years of providing for fifteen millions of people ; and at the expiration of twenty-one years , the original farms of fifteen acres each would be capable of being subdivided for the families , into farms of five acres each , if necessary . Thus would our present waste lands , New England , Ireland , and Scotland , of themselves , support on the spot twenty-one millions in affluence , comfort and splendour , at the end of twenty-one years and for ever . The laws to effect this purpose need not occupy more than a folio sheet ; while the difference between Threi per Cent ., at which Government could easily raise the money , aud Four per Cent , cheerfully paid by the labourer , would more than cover all the expenses ot adding a new and necessary department to the state machinery . But it is too visionary ! 'tis complicated ! because the interest of the poor man is concerned ; while if two hundred millions of pounds were required for a

      speculation to build a floating-bridge across the Atlan tic , or to make a tunnel from Dover to Calais ; if the eubjagation of labour , or the importation of foreign troops , was the object , every angle in a fascinating drawing by some happy draftsman would be scanned , and all FOOLISH objections overruled by "Bagman , " "Diogenes , ' " a Wwking Man , " or " . tortcota ; " and "the wind would be raised" in spite of all perils by land and water . In the sixth chapter of my hook ( for I have got so far , ) I treat this subject more minutely , and shall , therefore , for the present , allow you to chop upon it ; just asking you if you imagine that any tenant of New England , New Ireland , or X _ ew Scotland would require the process of the ballot to make him fly to the cry of "The Statc , ( of which he composed a part ) is in danger ! " —or even as a cloak to cover his face while he declared who shall benisvej > resentativ « . So , wo—Those , like all your arrangements , are but poor substitutes lor the pluin and simple rights which man should possess ; and the want of which makes national service a badge of

      slavery , instead of being a work ef pleasure , ily 1-jrJs and gentlemen , the fact is this : the people have now had quite enough of the great cricket-match between Whigs and Tories . The Tories had a long innings andlefta heavy score before they were run out ; the Whigs have iu turn been bowled nut ; and they have not mnde a bad innings ; but now , we must trir a match of all Britain and Ireland against the oligarchy . And believe me the Britons and Irish will catch the oligarchy out at every hill they strike . Will jc-u never learn I wisdom ? or do you not see that the time has come when J a great nation must have some better Charter of its rights , some better security against starvation , soma more defined policy for hs government , than what fickle faction may whimsically eke out of the address of a defeated minister to his supporters , oroutof the plausible speech of an expectant minister to his well-fed and welcome guests ?

      We must have some assurance that n NIGHT'S MIL . DEW or a day ' s heavy rain shall not consign us te famine ; and we must have some better rule for regulating our supplies oi food than the farthing or fractional slicing scale of political economists . I can find no such rule except in a free labour market ; and , therefore , for that I contend . _ U My lord * and gentlemen , hitherto you have played your cards badiy . You never should have relied upon other wealth than the highest cultivation of your own natural resources and artificial advantages . Your iron , your

      insular position and green fi-lds , added to your mechanical advantages over all other nations , and the hardihood and bravery of the people , should constitute your wealth , your greatness , and your pride . But m order to make slaves of the people , you have cheerful ! : joined in every experiment for their oppression , degrada tion , and humiliation , until at length J "" " * ve mad . th-m declare in their wrath , that if injustice and thi < Kreat disparity between man and man , is to be perpetuated , it shall only bo so by the right of conquest , and not by the sliding scale of oligarchical whim .

      Sly lords and gentlemen , no man has a more thorough contempt than I have for ihe mere p rofessional patriot , who lives upon abuse , while he looks upon dissension with the snmc interest that a lawyer looks upon a gooo complicated Chancery suit . I have now opened every door <> f the \ temple of corruption in which you have be-a long jitat up , so that no obstacle should be opposed to your advance to meet popular opiaion , so long appealing to you in vain . 1 have denuded the buggahoo Chartism oftho party garb in which faction has long dressed it , I hive shewn it to you in all its < fe * fruc ' t e * simplicity- I have explained the modest results anticipated from its suecess , aud the great national advantages to be

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      derived from Its substitution for the present pauperising , sterilizing , brutalizing , degrading , peace-destroying , hatred-creating system . I have shown yon that the people neither court idleness nor contemplate plunder , but that their principle is strictly Jlalthusian—amounting t * a desire to be " thrown upon their own resources ;" and thereby to prove that " their chief pride consists in the modest comforts of their condition . " I am , my lords and gentlemen , Tour obedient , And very humble servant , FSABOUS O'CoKNOB . Aug . 4 th , 1841 . P . S . My Lords and Gentlemen , I have this moment laid down the Horning Chronicle of the 3 rd of August , and I cannot avoid the temptation of a postcript , to which the following , among many equally ridiculous passages , extracted from a pamphlet of the Hon . and Rev . Bavxiit XoEt , invites ma . How pray attend . He says : —

      " Thera is an opinion sometimes expressed by well meaning persons , that we ought to keep up the agricultural population , and prevent the multiplication of great manufacturing towns , with all their disagreeable accompaniments of dirt and smoke and noise . But this opinion is surely thoughtless . The land is already so thoroughly cultivated that while the number of families in Great Britain employed in agriculture in 1821 was 978 , 656 , the number employed in the same manner in 1831 was reduced to 361 , 184 . The land , therefore , cannot employ the additional population ; and to endeavour to prevent multiplication of towns and the extension of manufactures , is to endeavour to secure that the whole additional population » f Great Britain and Ireland should be without employment , and without food . "

      In God ' s name , I ask , is it wonderful that we should have 400 , 000—nay , 4 , 000 . 000 of stray sheep from that flock of which the Hon . and Rev . Gentleman is shepherd in common with the fleecing Church t What , O ! what can equal this manifest , this egregious , this consummate ignorance ? Well for the man he is a gentleman and no . Chartist ! else would he have written himself down for n fool . But what think you of the leading political Journal of the "ten years' Reform ministry" bestowing much above a column of laudatory comment upon the absurdity ? I shall take the above chapter from the lamentations of the Rev . Baptist Noel , as the text for my next letter ; and if the man who wrote the comment for the Chronicle , ( I hope it was " an old and valued contributor , " ) does not hide bis face for shame , why then he is a man of steel indeed . Perhaps , the whole thing may be a puff . If so , it has succeeded ; for upon reading the shove . 1 instantly wrote to my publisher t » send me the Rev . Gentleman ' s whole book , with the intention o '~ exposing its fallacies , heresies , dogmas , aud falsehood . F . O'C .

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      VOL . IX . NO . 465- LONDON , SATURDAY , " OCTOBER 10 , 1846 . , TI ^ " ^ = lrZ ~

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      MTTEE TH . TO THE IRISH RESIDING IN GREAT BRITAIN . In accordance with the promise which I made in my last letter , I shall now proceed to lay before you without preface or circumlocution a few startling extracts from the speeches , letters , and resolutions of the man who has been your LEADER for fortysix years and mine also , to the time he came forward a * the Whig candidate for the representation of thr city of Dublin , in August , 1837 . In that year he had openly , avowedly , and nndisguisedly sold himself to . and became the pliant hack and subservient tool of . that faction which he had some short time before designated as " BASE , BLOODY , AND BRUTAL . "

      The crooked , deceitful policy which he had always followed , but which I did not perceive clearly till then , is now apparent to every one . Read attentively , I beseech yen , the following resolutions and extracts . They are in their way matchless . " IEINSTER DECLARATION FO & EEPEAL . " "The following resolutions were unanimously adopted at the meeting of the inhabitants of the province of Leinster , convened at Mnllaghmast , on the 1 st day of October , 1843 , by requisition , signed by TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHT CLERGYMEN . ONE HUNDRED MEMBERS OP THE CORPORATE BODIES and above TWO THOUSAND of the gentry , freeholders , burgesses and other inhabitants of the province . " DanielO'ConnellEsq ., M . P ., in the chair ,

      " Resolved . That this meeting hereby declares its devoted loyalty to the person and throne of her gracious Majesty , Queen Victoria , Queen of Ireland , and its determination to uphold and maintain inviolate all the pre . rogativesof the crown as guaranteed by the constitution . " " Resolved . That we , the clergy , gentry , freeholders , burgesses , and other inhabitants of tbeprovince of Leinster in PUBLIC MEETING assembled declare and pronounce in the presence of our country , before Europe and America and in the sight of heaven , that no POWER ON EARTH

      OUGHT OF RIGHT TO MAKE LAWS TO BIND THIS KINGDOM SAVE THE QUEEN , LORDS AND COMMONS OF IRELAND , and here standing on the graves of the martyred dead , we solemnly pledge ourselves to use every constitutional exertion to free this , our native land , from the tyranny of being legislated fcr by others than h > r own inhabitants . " "Resolvei . That forty-four years of devoted and successful labour iu the cause of his country have justlv earned for O'CONNELL , THE LIBERATOR OF IRELAND , the UNBOUNDED CONFIDENCE of the Irish people : and that we , relying upon his supreme

      wisdom , discretion , patriotism , and undaunted firmness , hereby pledge ourselves individually and collectively to follow his guidance UNDER any aud EVERY circumstance that MAT ARISE , and , come weal come woe , never to desert the constitutional standard of Repeal , which h . has raised . " Daniel O'Coknell , Chairman . Andrew R . Stctch , " \ John Gray , l Secretaries John Canefibld , \ ***™ ** - John Walsbe , j

      After these resolutions had been unanimously adopted by this meeting of slaves—wilful slaves—the LIBERATOR came to the front of the platform ; and raising his hands on high , said , " HERE , IN THE PRESENCE OF 2 UT COUNTRY , BEFORE EUROPE AND AMERICA , AND IN THE SIGHT OF HEAVEN , I PROCLAIM THE UNION VOID . " Whereupon Mr . Mark O'Callaghan , and one of the Young Ireland party , crowned the Liberator " KING OF THE HEARTS

      AND AFFECTIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND . " The poor honest dupes , the working classes , those who were in earnest , took it for granted that the Union was repealed , and were heard saying to one another : — " Well , did you ever think that we would get it so easy . By the powers of Mol Kelly ! I thought we'd have a bit of fighten for it . We'll go to Dublin at Christmas , jist to see the Union in College-green . "

      Now , my countrymen , reflect for a moment on this ostentatious mockery , this solemn delusion , this nefarious snare to entrap and secure the blind confidence of t ! ie unwary , the single-hear ! od , confiding , credulous dupes . Read the third resolution carefully ; weigh every word of it : see how the old fox pledges the whole meeting to rely upon his supreme wisdom , discretion , patriotism , . and undaunted firmness ; and to follow his guidance under any and

      EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE THAT xMAY ARISE . The devil himself never took greater pains to secure his victims than this cunning , deceitful old cheat , took to prevent his dupes from becoming clamorous when the time should come that the " CLAIMS OF REPEALERS FOR PLACE SHOULD NOT BE DISPARAGED by a Whig Government . " See howhe relies upon the principles of the Constitution , without a word about violating tho law , when he

      wishes to lead his dupes to the very verge of REVOLUTION ; and what a tender regard he has for the LAW , when he finds it necessary to restrain some of iiis followers from adhering to his former resolutions . Oh ! if orphans' moans , widows' tears , prayers , tnd secret curses , have any weight , Derrvnane , and its upstart horde of knaves and impostors , will crumble into ruin and be scattered like dust before the wind .

      Is there one man amongst you that would have the face to conic forward before any assembly , and as chairman put the question upon such a fulsome slavish piece of adulation and mockery as the third resolution . Read it again and again , I beg of you . U & RAL FORCE V . PHYSICAL P 0 RCE . From the 3 rd to the Oth of October . 1843 , the fol-

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      lowing advertisement appeared in the Freeman ' s Journal : — THB GREAT CtONTAHF NESTING . "At a meeting of the Committee of the Clontarf Dc raonstration , held this day , the Liberator moved the following resolutions : — " !« , ?' That out of respect to the wishes of several lii ghfympectable PROTECTANT CLERGTMAN . it is determinedtbat the PROCESSION TO CL . 0 NTARF shall not bejiforraed nearer to Dublin than the Crescent , Clonl tarf . Koud , and that the cavalcade shall MUSTER there on Sunday next , at T WO OICLOCK precisely . ' ¦ " 2 . 2 ! That the ' meeting of REPEAL CAVALRY , advertised for Harcourt-street Fields , do not take place there ; jbut that they MUSTER at the CRESCENT , ana fall in behind the Liberator ' s carriage at the same hour . ' C "Charles Gavin Duffy , ) . „ . - ^ . " Trancis Morgan ,. j- e » ecretariea .

      Do ; iou imagine that this mustering of Rbpem . Cavalry was not conducted with the guilty design of forcing the Government to put down an agitation whidKJraa assuming too much earnestness for the convenience of the Liborator ? , Well he'knew that the mustering of a Repeal Cavalry was unlawful ; and that ' the Government could not overlook it ; but h * *™ ped by this dextrous ' movement to get rid of apportion of ; the responsibility of the Repea l agitation . He felt that he had gone toe far : that the people , and some of the priests and bishops , were

      in farnest , and that the people had actually made up their minds to fight for freedom . The proclamation , arrest and trial were a real God-send , of which ypgighaU . be thoroughly convinced before this corres * poiiHlSnW H'i > r 6 ^ I am not yet at liberty to publish the nature of the instructions which Mr . Sheil : received to apply fo ? the prerogative , of the Crown on behalf of the state prisoners in Richmond henetentiary , the eondition of which was the total abandonment of the Repeal movement . Peel , great a man as he is , " put his foot in it , " when he refused Shiel's motion for the exercise of the prerogative of mercy .

      That portion of the Catholic Clergy who are now most clamorous denunciators of physical force , though no one speaks about it except themselves and Mr . O'Connell , had no great objection to a bis of » physical force demonstration at Clontarf , on the 8 th of October , 1843 . In the same ' column of the . Freeman s Journal , which contained the advertisement to MUSTER the REPEAL CAVALRY at the Crescent at Clontarf , the following Requisition appeared : — " clontarf—repeal . .

      " We , tbe undersigned Clergymen of Fingal , request b MEETING of the People of . Fiugal at CJon ' tarf , on Sunday the 8 th of October instant , at T WO o ' clock precisely , to petition Parliament for a REPEAL of the LEGISLATIVE US 10 N , and to express our decided , and unalterable , opinion , that nothing less than the restoration ol our Native Parliament can , or will satisfy the people of Ireland . " ; " The LTBB ! UTOR will attend . " James Carey , V . F . P . P . Swords ; James Callenan ,

      V . F . P . P ., Clontarf ; P .-J . Tyrrell , P . P ., Lu * k ; Charles Boyle , P . P ., Skerries ; M ; Dungan , P . P ., Blanchardstewn ; Patrick Fleming , CO ., Mulahlde ; John Walshe , P . P ., Rollcstown ; J « hn Molloy , P . P ., Ganistown . ; James Young , P . P . ; Patrick Montague , P . P ., Naul ; William Doran , CO . ; Ed . Kennedy , C . C . ; John M'Hugh , C . C . ; Michael Doyle , C . C . ; Joseph M'K « y , C . C . ; John M'Carthy , CO . ; B . M'Doiiald , O . C ; P . Smith , C . C . John M'Do & nell , C . C . ; Thos . Kiernau , C . C . ; Edward M'Cabe , C . C . ; John Greene , C . C . ; Henry Young , C . C . ; P . Smith , C . C .

      The majority of these requisitioiusts have announced their intentiah to hold a meeting now , for the purpose of adopting a vote of confidence in Mr . O'Connell , and approval of his recent moral force movement—a movement which every sensible man in the kingdom knows full well was introduced in the Repeal Association , for the sole purpose of getting rid of those who had announced their intention of abiding'by the object of the Clerical Requisitiontsts of Fingal- " THAT NOTHING LESS THAN A

      RESTORATION OF OUR NATIVE PARLIAMENT CAN OR WILL SATISFY THE PEOPLE OP IRELAND . " This conduct would appear very inconsistent had not these gentlemen pledged themselves collectively and individually to follow Mr . O'Connell under

      ANY AND EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE THAT MAY ARISE . Had they not pledged themselves in this manner ' at the great ; Leinster meeting at Mullaghmast , they would . see that the introduction of the Moral Force resolutions at the Repeal Association was as much out of place , ; as uncalled for , and as inconsistent , indecent , and unnecessary , as it would be for the ? accomplished , virtuous , and excellent wives of Mr . Morgan O'Connell , Mr . Maurice O'Connell , or Mr . John O'Connell , or any of them , to leave their drawing-rooms , and go into the streota and cry out , " Who dare say that I am not a good wife ?" We live in strange times ; but let us now proceed to the extracts .

      "Give me but six menths of pence and tranquillity and I will have the parliament in College Green , or give you iny head on a block . "—Daniel O'Connell , October 22 , 1843 . " He that commits a crime gives strength to the enemy . "—Daniel O'Connell . " It is said that Fesrtrus O'Connor is about to visit this city ; if so , I hope there is ( sufficient spirit in the coal porters to souse him in the Liffey . " —Dnniel O'Connell , " Where is the man who will tell m « that the kingdom of heaven is like a poor man ' s house in a hot , with but one road leading to it , "—Daniel O'Connell . "The corrupting influence of the Castle of Dublin is such that even the great Doctor Dojle himself cannot visit it without losing a part of his utility . "—Daniel O'Connell .

      " There is the hand that drew up the petition for the emancipation of the Unitarians and other Dissenters , nnd , blessed be God , that they , vcre emancipated even before the Catholics . "—Daniel O'Connell . " No Catholic Bishop can be a member of the Board under the Bequests Act , because they should dispense Unitarian Charitits , which they cannot do , as the UNITARIANS ARE NOT CHRISTIANS . But this objection does not apply to Protestants in connection with the Church of England . "—Daniel O'Connell . Letter to Dr . Cimtwell from Richmond Penitentiary .

      "If the education of tlio . Catholic children in the Kildaro Place Schools were the object of th « society , and not proselytism , why should they introduce Religion or Religious Tracts into the Schools ? Why not leave the religious instruction of tho children to their parents and the clergy of their choice ? There is no religion in Bntick's Dictionary . There is no religion in the five common rules , in arithmetic , in grammar , in the arts or sciences , or even in the classics ; and am I to be told by the learned secretary ( Jackson ) that those do not contain education . "—Daniel O'Connell . " The Infidel C ) llt > gcs have no provision for reliviomi instruction within their , walls , and must necessarily , therefore , impart a godless education to the students . "Daniel O'Connell .

      "I hereby otter a reward of Fifty pounds to any one who Shall , within six months from tho date hereof , prove that Joseph Dennis Mullen was ever yet GUILTY of ONE HONEST or STRAIGHTFORWARD transaction . ' —Daniel O'Connell , " Ireland would soon be a free nation if every parish had a Joseph Denis Mullen in it . "—Daniel O'Connell . " He who is not a Chartist is either a KNAVE who profits by the evils of misrula , or a FOOL upon whom facts and reason make no impression . "—Daniel O ' Connell . " I pledge my professional reputation that it is a transportable oti ' ence to be a Chartist . "—Daniel O'Connell . " Is it enough , or shall he , while a thrill Lives in your sapient bosoms , cheat you still .

      I shall , in my next letter , give you a pretty accurate accouat of the FACTORY BRIBE . This subject has hitherto been involved ia a good deal ol mystery . I [ shall make it clear enough , and that loo without tl-c least fear of contradiction . Patuicu . O'Hksgins . Dublin . 4 th of . October ' 184 C .

      I The "Windermere Railway Was Open To The Public J On Tuesday Last.

      i The "Windermere Railway was open to the public j on Tuesday last .

      The Manx Sun Says Tho Herring Fishery Ha...

      The Manx Sun says tho herring fishery has improved this weefc

      Coatttst Intelligence

      Coatttst intelligence

      Dumfries. Our Working Men's Association ...

      DUMFRIES . Our Working Men ' s Association continues in a most satisfactory state . A muster roll of between 70 and 80 issomethingin these dull times for a , Chartist corps in an out of the way place like Dnm fries . The agitation has been carried on in more utrlring times here , with a much less numerous and infinitely worse appointed staff—and Chartism is not only alNe here , but kicking . On Thursday erening last , tho second day of our great fair , the members and friends of the association , to the number of—eschewing balls , the tavern , and other vanities—a hundred and more , supped together in the large room of the Temnerance

      Hotel . Mr . George Lewis in the eha r , with Mr . Jas . Grieson " fornenst" him , acting as vice or croupiep . Th * material department of the soiree , did great credit to Mr . Macnish , the worthy landlord and caterer . It was served up about seven o ' clock , and it was close upon the " we short hour o' tho mornin '" ere the- delighted party could bring themselves to say good night . It is generally admitted that such a happy night was never before spent between the Nith and Loohar Moss . An elder o' the kirk frae , up the water of Orr , declares that he never knew what enjoyment was before ; and declares , that if he knows when the next takes place , that he will come again , ¦ ' Tho' ' twere ten thousand miles . "

      The company was select and varied—old men like our friend the elder , young men unlikehim ; matrons , like everything matronly , and maidens , like nothing in heaven , earth , « r the waters under the earth , but their ain bonny selves ; and the toasts , songs , and sentiments wore to correspond , and plenty of them . How they were received , by those topographically acquainted with Dumfries may be understood , when we mention that the ruffing and eheering was heard at the Monument , and by any body else , when they know , that the marks of enthusiastic approbation remain upon Mr . Macnish ' s tables until this day , and that next morning more than one hand was well blistered . The only drawback was the smallness of the room , but that will be got over at the next

      meeting of the kind , which ia fixed for New Tear ' s day , There are now several public rooms to be had , and there ' s no fear of filling the largest . The following are a few of the sentiments proposed on Monday evening : — « ' The Sovereignty of the People "— " The Charter , and may it soon become the Law of the Land , " and " Feargus O'Connor , Esq . "—all from the Chair . " The speeedy Restoration of Frost , Williams , Jones , and Ellis "—by Mr . Wardrop . Song by Mr . M'Divett- " The Exile of Erin . " " Thomas Diinconibc , Esq ., M . P . " -Mi- Samuel Welsh . ¦ " W . Ewart , Esq ., M . P . "—Mr . Wardrop . " The Northern Star , and the People ' s Press "—Mr . Welsh . « ' Patrick 0 ' Iliegins , E * q "—Mr . Wardrop . « ' The Dumfries and Maxwelton WorKIng Men ' s Association , long may it continue to prosper "—the Chairman . " The Memory of Burns" —by the Croupier . Song : Mr .

      M'Divett— " A Man ' s a Man for a' that . " "Mr . Ernest Jones , the Chartist poet "—the Chairman . " Success to the Land Scheme "—the Chair . Song by Mr . M'Divett— " The People ' s Estate . " Then fallowed " The Chartist Platform , coupled with Mr . Wardrop ' s health "— " The Founders of the Association , " & c ,, & ., all most apptopiately introduced , and enthusiastically responded to . Messrs . M'Divett , Tounsr , and others , including several of the fair Chftrtiists present , supplied a . $ Tbfusi 6 n of excellent , suitable , and excellent songs , executed in first rate style . We had almost forgot to mention that the well-lighfed room was tastefully decorated with festoons of flowers , and the walls hung witli tho banners of the Association , and the portraits which have been presented from time to time with the Star , these framps prankt with dahlias , die . ;

      MR . DOYLE'S TOUR IN SCOTLAND . Mr . Doyle has delivered lectures during the past week in Parkhead , Rutherlcn , Newmilns , Darral , and Galston , to numerous and highly respectable meetings , especially Galston , Darval , and Newmilns ; and his expositions of the various evils which press upon the toiling millions of the United Kingdom , told with great effect on the audiences he addressed , also his advocacy of the principles of the Chartist Cooperative Land Society . Hislecture on Friday night in Galston , which occupied two hours in the delivery , was received with universal satisfaction . It embraced five points , each of which Mr . Doyle did ample justice to ( viz )—First—the Land of the United Kingdom ,

      and its extent . Secondly—The capabilities of the Land , when laid out in allotments suitable xa the convenience and circumstances of the People , and cuU tivated upon the new and improved principle ! acidly set forth by Mr . O'Connor in his small farm work . Thirdly—The causes which have prevented a fair and equitable distribution of the Land considered . Fourthly—The monopoly of machinery , and its fatal consequences to the working classes generally . And Fifthly—The principles of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , the only effectual remedy , socially considered , calculated to counteract the baneful influence and effects of the monopoly of machinerj ^—the monopoly of the Land , and the destructive power of the Capitalists , and the Landed Aristocracy .

      BARNSLEY . ¦ , ' At the weekly meeting of the members of the National Charter Association , held in their room , on Sunday last , the political career of Henry Hunt and Feargus O'Connor was discussed according to a previous announcement . ' The noble and generous acts of these two nobles of nature tvas laid before the meeting by several speakers , and their conduct contrasted with that of their vile traducers . It was remarked by one of ; the speakers that , on Henry" Hunt first entering the Commons' House of Parliament , he was mj > t and escorted in by Daniel O'Connell and Joseph Hume , who congratulated him on his first entrance into the Senate House , and told him what

      a strength he would add to their party , but the patriotic and generous Hunt replied , "No , gentlemen , I'll add strength to no party , I have not come hero for party purposes , but to serve my country , I'll support good measures and oppese bad ones , regardless of who their author may be . " From that time the hatred of the two humbugs commenced . Old Dan soon held out with his poisonous breath , " He ' s sold to the Tories . " The same with Feargus O'Connor , when he refused to be his tool he was " sold to the Tories . " At the close of the discussion , on the motion of John Ward , seconded by Michael Sograve , fund supported by Frank Mirfield and others , the ollowing resolution was passed : —

      "Resolrcd—That this meeting having discussed and considered the noble and patriotic deeds of the ' tn-o great and good men forming this night ' s subj » ct for discussion , regret the abuse they havebotli encountered from the men they have been struggling , for being well convinced that had the working classes been half as true to their own cause as Hunt and O'Connor have been to them , or had they followed the advice of these excellent men , we should have been in full possession of our rights long since , consequently the same respect is duo to them and tilth-memories , as though we were in that blissful state . "

      SHEFFIELD . On Sunday , a discussion took place in the Demoraocratio Temperance Room , 33 , Queen-street , Mr . Lecvsley in the chair , on the Evils of Tithes . ' At the close of the meeting the following resolution was unanimously agreed to : — "That this meeting is of opinion that the tithe exaction is unjust in principle , nefarious in practice , and a standing nuisance on the statute-book . " Thanks having been voted to the chairman , the

      meeting dissolved . An Election Committee is formed here , and is increasing in numbers every meeting night . Our excellent Library , numbering upwards of 300 volumes , has been closed some time , owing to the works going under repairs , "ill re-open on Sunday next , from nine o clock until half-past ten . By a resolution of the council , the libraryis not confined to members as before ; friends to invtructiw will do well to avail themselves of the above opportunity , the charges being only one halfpenny per volume , per week .

      CHELTIIENIIAM . At the weekly meeting of the Shareholders in the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , held in the Unitarian School-room , on Monday evening last , it was proposed and carried unanimously : — That thepersons present form themselves into abranch of the National Charter Association . Several names were taken down , and a sum ol money subscribed to commence operations . The meeting was then adjourned to Monday evening next , at eight o ' clock , when the attendance of every democrat is particularly requested ,

      BILSTON . A delegate meeting was held , according to announcement in last week ' s Star , at the above place , Mr . A . Fusscll in the chair ; Mr . 1 ) , Pott acted as secretary . The following resolutions were agreed to : — 1 st , That a district committee be formed of Birmingham and South Staffordshire , to assist tho eeutral com . mittee for the purpose of sending as many members to the House of Commons at tho next general election as possible , and that we pledge ourselves to use every moans in our power to collect funds for the same . ' - hid . That we recommend eacli locality iu this district to form an electioneering committos ,

      Dumfries. Our Working Men's Association ...

      diJiJ !** v rfMBm « d the Charfutt body « f th amono .. ^ ^ u r ! ° billing each , ( 0 be diuded amongst the Chartist exiles . beit ' of ^ w ° . epenn 7 per "" rath ' be . paid Dy the mem . 5 Wido " . atl % ?» CharUr As 5 s °° * tion to the Patriots Dth T ^ and Orphan'Fund . ¦ -. ¦; on sund ,. w " " 'I dele S < = meeting beheld atBudiey , 6 th "S'Member-l » t , at to ,, o ' clock . ' " ings to the VnT ^ J" * ' S ° nd »« Port . of the proceed-*^^ fc ^/^ T ^ To Ch * et » t 5 of BnrnixaiUM A 5 D Soi'TH .. & TAFPORDSIIIBB . Mr . P SnS ^ wfe ^ delegateB «* en » Ued ' at feel extreE ei a t \ ° ^ y . October I , & fi ^^ 1 & tsim

      shoud put your shoulder Tto the wheel Th , ni L ° . tion s will you do yoii r ^ l %$£% , $£ * £ ¦ S 5 * ¥ l ? Cnt , y ' V l 6 y 0 U aro SinK ii apathy ? No -let every place in this district be represented at the next delegate meeting at Dudley . At a meeting of the Chartists of this place , held on Sunday evening last , the following resolutions , pro . posed by Mr . Linney , seconded by Thomas Hammereley , were adopted : — " .. ¦' ., That we do now form ourselves Into a reading and discussion class , with the view of drawing out talent , that is at present laying dormant . To meet on Tuesday evening , October 13 th , at 7 o'cleek . '¦ •' - ¦ ¦ , ¦ •' - ¦ -. ' " ¦ ' 3 The following papers and books will be read : —Nor . thern Star , Douglas Jerrold ' s Paper , People ' s Journal , O'Connor ' s Work on Small Farms , < fc « .

      NEWTON ABBOT . ., A R " bl'c meeting of the Newton Abbot branch of ' ^ . wW Co-operative Land Society , was held at the Turk ' s Head Assembly Rooms , on Thursday evening the 1 st fast ,, for general business . Air . J . hints in the chair . It was unanimously agreed : — , ; That letters be sent to the - different branches in the neighbourhood to ascertain the amount each would ba aolB to raise for the p urpose of paying the expences of E . done * ,-Esq ., should he accept an Invitation to visit Devonshire . '" , That a halfpenny per share per month be paid by each , member to defray the nootssary local expenses . That £ i a-year he paid the Secretary . That Mr , G . Godfrey be Secretary . That Mr . J . B . Crewe , be Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer ,

      NOTTINGHAM . , , A delegate meeting was held on Sunday last , at the New Ian , Oarrington , when delegates , frohvthe following places , were present :-Nottingham , Arn 7 \ , , } on > Ba 8 ford ^ nton , Carrington , Lamblv , and Hartford . It wag unanimously agreed that the Mayor of Nottingham be respectfully solicited to convene a public meeting on the 19 th day of the present month , at the Town Hall , at seven o ' clock in the evening , for the purpose of adopting the National Petition , and electing a delegate to attend Ihe Petition . Convention . Mr . Sweet was unanimously chosen to be put in nomination at the public meeting . The election committee will meet next Sunday evening , at six o ' clock , at the sign of the Newton ' s Head , Nottingham .

      ASHTON . The usual weekly meeting of the shareholders of Jl X ? ! Co-operative Land Society was heldin the Chartist room , Bentinck-street , on Sunday last , when a discussion twk place as to the propriety of joining the National Charter Association . Considering as working men that it is our dutv to assist our Chartist brethren in the efforts now making to arouse the people to a sense of their condition , and tosijn the Petition to Parliament for the enactment of the People ' s Charter ) and we call the attention of the different localities to the following proposition : — "That the Shareholders of the Chartist Co-operative I / and Society shall pay the sum of one ponny per week to the Chartist Association . That the general and local expenses of the Land Society be defrayed out of their subscriptions , and the r » st go to the Chartist Association . "

      By this means we could employ lecturers to expound our principles in the agricultural districts , f he discussion will be resumed next Sunday , and we hope the shareholders will all attend .

      GLASGOW . At the usual meeting of the Glasgow branch of the Chartist Cooperative Sociefcr , held in Murdoch ' s school room , on Monday , October oth , James Bain in tho- chair , iMr . O'Connor ' s letter from the Sue of the 3 rd , was read which gave the ereatest satisfaction . The nomination of the Executive was then taken up in accordance with the announcement of the secretary , and after considerable discussion it was unanimously agreed that the present executive should be continued in office . The chairman then asked what progress the branch had made since Mr . Doyle ' s lecture , when the secretary stated that upwards of thirty members had been enrolled as the fruits of that lecture . Mr . Dotlb ' s Routb . — Monday , October 12 th Hamilton ; Tuesday , 13 th , Lannark ; Wednesday , 14 th , -Burr-head ; Thursday , 15 th , Anderston ; Friday , loth , Glasgow ; Saturday , 17 th , Campsie .

      DUMFRIES . At the weekly meeting of the Association , held on Sunday evening , the Daily ' News , a journal which has cruelly disappointed the hopes of the pooplc was turned out of the reading room , our members judging even " euld bloody" preferable , on the principle that an open enemy is better than a pretended friend . Tho proposal in tho last Star , to establish a daily democratic journal has given great satisfaction here . DUNKIRK , NEAR DEVIZES . Adoption op tub National Petition . —At a meeting held on Monday evening last , at Mr . Thomas Bond ' s to adopt the National Petition , Ithe following resolutions were unanimously agreed to .

      That it is the solemn conviction of this -meeting , that every man is born with a natural right to a voice iu the making of the laws he Is called upon to obey , and believing as we do , that all the evils aff » cting society is owing to class legislation , we therefore pledgo ourselves by every legal means in our power to obtain the People ' s Charter . That this meeting do , in accordance with the late Convention , agree to the presentation of a National Petition , and that tills meeting do agree to procure as many signatures as possible to the same .

      ROCHDALE . __ On Monday erening last , a public meeting was held in the Chartist room , to take ^ jinto consideration the case of the Keighly turn-outs , Joseph Ferber * shaw in the chair . A fter a delegate from the men on strike had briefly explained the nature of the turnout , the following resolution was adopted . Proposed by Edward Mitchell , seconded by Joseph Hoakes . That this mcetinjjis determined to render every possi , ble asssistance to the * oppressed operatives ot'Keigbley now resisting the cruel oppression of the manufactucrs

      MANCHESTER . Adoption op thr National Pktitiox . —On Sunday evening last , October 4 th , a public meeting for the purpose of adopting the National Petition , praying the enactment oftho People ' s Charter , was held at the People ' s Institute . Tho Hall was well filled . Previous to the business oftho meeting , the " prayer " was read from the Northern Star by Yfiliiam Savttall . Amen was uttered by all present with solemnity and respect . John Sutton was unaitimously called to the chair . Two resolutions were submitted to the meeting ' s approval , by Messrs . Clarke . Donnovan , Nuttall , and Rankin , who eloquently addressed the audienco , and the National Petition was unanimously adopted . 12 s . Gd . was collected for the Keighley turn-outs . A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman , and the meeting closed .

      Destitutiox Is The Highlands. — A Meetin...

      Destitutiox is the Highlands . — A meeting of the county of Argyll was held at Inverary on the 30 th . ult ., to take into consideration the present critical state of the poor and labouring population , in consequence of the failure of the potutoe crop . The MarqiiessofBreathilbane was called to the chair , Ilia lordship , after alluding to the bleak prospects before the poorer classes , stated as his opinion that the' proprietors of land must in a great measure provide for the exigency which had arisen ; and until each of them in the county had done its utmost to meet the urgency in the case , they would only go to government with little chance of success . The present was therefore emphatically the time to commence improvements on their property , and thus afford employment to the poor , The Marquess of Lome said the proprietors of Argyll would not shirk the obturations which lav on them to attend to the welfare of those

      on their estates . ' At the same time , considering that the pressure would not fall equally on all the proprietors , he did think l hoy had grounds to call the attention of government to the question , with the view of asking its assistance towards two or three important objects Two of these were emigration aud the encouragement of the fisheries ; and , as to the third , he theught the attention of tho executive should be especially called to it . This was the providing a supply of food for these who were able aud willing to purchase it . thereby affording the same justice and favour to the people of the Highlands of Scotland—who , although less unruly , were sufYering as much from destiution—as to the people of Ireland . A committee was then appointed to draw out resolutions to meet tlic case ; when , after a brief delay , a string of resolutions was unanimously agreed to , and a committee appointed to carry them into etteefc . The meeting then broke tip .

      Doublk Suicide—Two factory girls poisoned themselves last week at Exeter . ' 1 hey were visited by a mail uf indifferent character , t , om whonvone o them got a half-crown to get « . mo hnuoi » iUi . but never returned . The man threatened to expose K to SS employer , and under the terror of this throat they destroyed themselves with . arsenic . A

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 10, 1846, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10101846/page/1/